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2. Blast furnace - Wikipedia

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   Blast furnaces differ from bloomeries and reverberatory furnaces in that in a blast furnace, flue gas is in direct contact with the ore and iron, allowing carbon monoxide to diffuse into the ore and reduce the iron oxide. The blast furnace operates as a countercurrent exchange process whereas a bloomery does not.

3. List of preserved historic blast furnaces - Wikipedia

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   Two blast furnaces have been preserved, including outer frames, furnaces and Cowper stoves. A protective paint coating minimizes the rusting effects on the blast furnaces. Blast furnace 6 is accessible to the public as part of guided tours. A colorful light installation illuminates the entire area at nighttime. [9] [10] Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Bavaria

4. John Wilkinson (industrialist) - Wikipedia

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   John Wilkinson was born in Little Clifton, Bridgefoot, Cumberland (now part of Cumbria), the eldest son of Isaac Wilkinson and Mary Johnson. Isaac was then the potfounder at the blast furnace there, [3] one of the first to use coke instead of charcoal, which was pioneered by Abraham Darby.

5. Bloomery - Wikipedia

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   The Chinese are thought to have skipped the bloomery process completely, starting with the blast furnace and the finery forge to produce wrought iron; by the fifth century BC, metalworkers in the southern state of Wu had invented the blast furnace and the means to both cast iron and to decarburize the carbon-rich pig iron produced in a blast ...

6. Water jacket furnace (metallurgy) - Wikipedia

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   Conventional blast furnaces used for smelting iron ore use a hot blast. Water jacket furnaces most commonly used a cold air blast, typically provided by a positive-displacement blower, such as a Roots blower. Preheating of the air blast was used on some water jacket furnaces, but preheating of the blast had no advantage when the furnace was ...

7. What is SunCoke Energy and why does it want to buy ... - AOL

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   News broke Wednesday that United States Steel plans to sell its two blast furnaces at Granite City Works to SunCoke Energy, Inc. If the sale goes through, it could cost the region approximately ...

8. Blast from the past: Fragment of Revolution-era cannon ...

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   Discovered on a junk pile off Mt. Aetna Road in Hagerstown, the cannon was a cast-off that was never completed by the Mt. Aetna Furnace that operated in the area from the 1760s to 1830s. “This ...

9. Tannehill Ironworks - Wikipedia

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   The furnace remains and its reconstructed portions were named an American Society for Metals historical landmark in 1994. [7] The park is an American Battlefield Trust Heritage Site, [ 8 ] a stop on the Alabama Appalachian Highlands Birding Trail, [ 9 ] and was listed among the top 10 Alabama parks and nature areas visited in 2016.